Premium Processing of I-140s

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GCChaahiye

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Does anyone have any idea about what is happening on this front? Any latest developements?Or has it been frozen in the cold storage?
 
My understanding is that premium processing has turned out to be a really bad idea, as it had an extremely negative effect on processing times for non-premium cases, so tney scrapped its further implementation. Think about it this way - concurrent filing is pretty much your premium processing except that it does not cost you a grand.
 
I strongly feel that they should start premium processing of I-140s especially in the case of NIWs atleast.Because the software industry is in doldrums right now, there is no meaning in the PP of such cases.

Since it is for permanent residency,perhaps the premium can be set at say $1500 or even $2000.And I am sure people would be ready to pay.

They should use this extra money effectively to recruit additional officers to process this type of cases only.I am sure there will be no dearth of applicants at any given point of time.And if they can get some time to spare on I-140s and I-485s, they can be used for other types of cases as well.

Instead of 2 weeks as in the case of I-129s, they can perhaps set the time limit to 3 weeks for I-140s and perhaps 5 weeks for AOS (I-485) from the Receipt Date. So, in about 2 months, successful applicants can get their GC.

Just my thoughts and opinion.

Makes sense?

Now, who will bell the cat?
 
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Originally posted by GCChaahiye
I strongly feel that they should start premium processing of I-140s especially in the case of NIWs atleast.Because the software industry is in doldrums right now, there is no meaning in the PP of such cases.

Since it is for permanent residency,perhaps the premium can be set at say $1500 or even $2000.And I am sure people would be ready to pay.

They should use this extra money effectively to recruit additional officers to process this type of cases only.I am sure there will be no dearth of applicants at any given point of time.And if they can get some time to spare on I-140s and I-485s, they can be used for other types of cases as well.
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Well, the goverment doen't work quite like that. The BCIS is not free to do whatever it wants with the money it gets as the fees. The money goes into the budget and the budget of the BCIS is not equal to the amount of money it collects from the petitioners. Hiring new case officers is not that simple either - the funds for that should be apportioned in the budget - I mean we're talking abouth creating new civil service position. So to do what you propose they would either wait a long time or shift their emphasis. And here we come to an even bigger flaw of your idea. We're all merit-based applicants here. And in this country the policy is never merit-driven. If you have any doubts just look at the latest Supreme Court decision. So no one really cares about us. I still have not quite figured out if I'd be eligible for GC under Mr. Gutierrez's bill, since I've been in the country long enough to qualify, but spent every sinle day in status.
 
Sure it's to a very large extent merit driven. There are just sometimes other considerations. I strongly disagree with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action (I assume that is the decision to which you were referring) but that does not mean that the country is not largely merit based. Companys that are not strong fail and college graduates who do not have good grades, skills, training or something else to offer are left to take the lower paying jobs, if they can even get those in this economy.
 
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